Facing a midlife career crossroads, James Hope took a giant gamble last year and established Rocky Mountain Portables in Boise, Idaho, along with his wife, Cecelia Hope. All they started with was a new pickup truck with a slide-in tank, plus 50 nearly new restrooms — effectively loaned by one of Hope’s brothers, who also owns an Idaho-based portable sanitation company.
Nearly a year and a half and thousands of hard-earned work hours later, the Hopes now own two service trucks and nearly 400 Aspen restrooms from Five Peaks, all tangible signs of a calculated risk that panned out even better
